World Voices in FictionAravind Adiga | Yiyun Li | Tash Aw | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2008 Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga making his first Canadian appearance, and award-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are among the acclaimed authors reading in our celebration of global literature.

Join some of global fiction's freshest voices for an evening of readings and discussion exploring themes ranging from the rural/urban divide to the sense of home between Africa and North America.

China's Yiyun Li, winner of the Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, makes her Toronto debut with her new novel, The Vagrants, set in rural China. Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus) presents her much-anticipated short-story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck. Malaysia's Tash Aw (The Harmony Silk Factory) reads from his beautiful new novel, Map of the Invisible World, set during Sukarno's drive to purge 1960's Indonesia of its colonial past, and 2008 Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga makes his first Canadian appearance with The White Tiger, an explosive critique of the new India.

"Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries to be a truly fine writer. There is a strangeness at the heart of her fiction that comes from somewhere other than China - a world inside the author."- The Guardian (UK)

"The secret of Adichie's style is simplicity, rhythm and balance. She writes a poet's sentences."  - London Review of Books

"The White Tiger is a penetrating piece of social commentary, attuned to the inequalities that persist despite India's new prosperity."- The New York Times Book Review

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